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Our Stories Light The Way: A Phenomenological Study Exploring The Experiences Of Black Women Stem Graduates From Predominantly White Institutions, Raeshan Davis Apr 2022

Our Stories Light The Way: A Phenomenological Study Exploring The Experiences Of Black Women Stem Graduates From Predominantly White Institutions, Raeshan Davis

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Grounded in a conceptual framework informed by Social Cognitive Career Theory, Intersectionality, and Community Cultural Wealth, this study explored the experiences of 17 Black women who graduated from STEM undergraduate programs at predominantly White institutions (PWIs). Utilizing a qualitative study approach provided rich, detailed insights into the internal and external contributors at play in the lives of the Black women who successfully navigated their STEM undergraduate programs at PWIs. Through the exploration of their individual and collective experiences, this study illuminated four major themes: (1) asserting one’s sense of belonging in the pursuit of a STEM career, (2) the value …

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Rukeyser's Difficulty - Alaconference Session, Chicago, Illinois, May 26, 2022, Elisabeth Däumer Apr 2022

Rukeyser's Difficulty - Alaconference Session, Chicago, Illinois, May 26, 2022, Elisabeth Däumer

Ruke Blog

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2022 Undergraduate Research Competition Program, Coastal Carolina University Apr 2022

2022 Undergraduate Research Competition Program, Coastal Carolina University

Undergraduate Research Symposium Programs

13th Annual Undergraduate Research Competition, April 12-13, 2022. Document includes schedule and abstracts.

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Emerging Themes And Future Directions Of Multi-Sector Nexus Research And Implementation, Jennifer Schmidt Apr 2022

Emerging Themes And Future Directions Of Multi-Sector Nexus Research And Implementation, Jennifer Schmidt

ISER Articles

Water, energy, and food are all essential components of human societies. Collectively, their respective resource systems are interconnected in what is called the “nexus”. There is growing consensus that a holistic understanding of the interdependencies and trade-offs between these sectors and other related systems is critical to solving many of the global challenges they present. While nexus research has grown exponentially since 2011, there is no unified, overarching approach, and the implementation of concepts remains hampered by the lack of clear case studies. Here, we present the results of a collaborative thought exercise involving 75 scientists and summarize them into …

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A Framework For Assessing Food-Energy-Water Security: A Few Case Studies From Rural Alaska, Jennifer Schmidt Apr 2022

A Framework For Assessing Food-Energy-Water Security: A Few Case Studies From Rural Alaska, Jennifer Schmidt

ISER Articles

Food, energy, and water (FEW) are basic needs for well-being and quality of life. Assessing FEW security allows residents, communities, and policy makers to make informed decisions about how to sustain and improve well-being. We have developed a FEW security assessment framework that examines four components of security: availability, access, quality, and preference. With the help of local community members, we interviewed 114 households in three rural Alaska communities to assess FEW security, drivers and outcomes of FEW security, and potential interactions among FEW components and with renewable energy (RE) developments. While FEW security was high overall, preference and quality, …

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The Kemp Foundation’S Teaching Excellence Award Ceremony (2022 Program And Video), Illinois Wesleyan University Apr 2022

The Kemp Foundation’S Teaching Excellence Award Ceremony (2022 Program And Video), Illinois Wesleyan University

The Kemp Foundation's Teaching Excellence Award Ceremony Programs

This video contains the entire event, including the address given by the current Kemp Award winner, Professor of English Joanne Diaz. Retiring faculty are also honored (bios included in the program) and the Kemp Award winner for next year is revealed.

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Adaptive Coping For Covid-Related Stress, Sandra Maloy Apr 2022

Adaptive Coping For Covid-Related Stress, Sandra Maloy

Undergraduate Research Conference

The restrictions placed on society by the COVID- 19 pandemic for the purpose of limiting spread of the disease appear to have produced a different set of potential chronic health issues. Through lockdown and social distancing measures the general public lost access to key elements of daily life. The literature and qualitative interview data primarily support a negative association between participation in spiritual and physical activity and COVID-19 related stress. These findings are not surprising based on previous research investigating coping and other chronic stressors.

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Reading As Resistance: Representations Of Indigeneity In Twentieth Century American Children’S Literature, Isabel Evans Apr 2022

Reading As Resistance: Representations Of Indigeneity In Twentieth Century American Children’S Literature, Isabel Evans

2022 Claremont Colleges Library Undergraduate Research Award

My research investigates representations of Indigeneity in twentieth century American children’s literature. As part of my methodology, I examined children’s books that include Indigenous characters or iconography, like feather headdresses or moccasins, coded as “Indian” in the dominant American imagination. This enabled me to interrogate hegemonic understandings of the “Indian” among non-Native people in the United States, who, until mid-century, saw Indigenous peoples, paradoxically, as both non-human threats to American progress and as the “first Americans.” These assumptions permeated popular children’s books like Two Little Savages (1903) and Little Leo (1951), which both present the “Indian” as an identity that …

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A Body's Soldier, Kelsey Lewis Apr 2022

A Body's Soldier, Kelsey Lewis

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

Immunoglobulins have the job of recognizing antigens (invaders) and binding to them to aid in neutralization, or destruction. These invaders can be bacteria, viruses, fungi, or any microorganism that causes disease, mild or severe. One form of IgA called, secretory immunoglobulin A (SIgA), is found in the mucosal areas of the body and is the second most abundant immunoglobulin in our system. These mucosal areas include the gastrointestinal regions, the respiratory tract, and the genitourinary regions. High levels of IgA without pathogens present can cause many health issues including destruction of healthy tissues. This usually results in autoimmune disease.

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Commercially Geneticizing Race, Ethnicity, And Nation: The Implications Of The Discourse Surrounding Commercialized Genetic Tests On Identity, Kiara Jacoby Apr 2022

Commercially Geneticizing Race, Ethnicity, And Nation: The Implications Of The Discourse Surrounding Commercialized Genetic Tests On Identity, Kiara Jacoby

The Compass

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The Compass, Issue 8 Apr 2022

The Compass, Issue 8

The Compass

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Highly Accomplished New Faculty Join Seattle U Law, Seattle University School Of Law Apr 2022

Highly Accomplished New Faculty Join Seattle U Law, Seattle University School Of Law

News Center Articles

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The Connection Between Body Modification And Personality, Taylor Shoemaker Apr 2022

The Connection Between Body Modification And Personality, Taylor Shoemaker

Steeplechase: An ORCA Student Journal

Previous research has been inconsistent in its findings regarding the associations between body modifications (e.g., piercings, tattoos, augmentation, scarification, split tongue) and the Big Five personality traits (i.e., openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism). All traits have been found to be significantly correlated with body modification in at least one study, but their significance differed from study to study. The purpose of the current study was to examine the associations between body modification and each domain of personality concurrently to add to the literature surrounding differences between modified and unmodified individuals. To participate in this study, participants were asked …

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Wage Inequality Amongst Artists, Raegan Christianson Apr 2022

Wage Inequality Amongst Artists, Raegan Christianson

INSPIRE Student Research and Engagement Conference

Presents research on hypotheses on pay differentials for artists.

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I Wish You Were Here: An Autoethnographic Study On A Story Of Grief And The Role Of Psychological Capital, Christina Albright Apr 2022

I Wish You Were Here: An Autoethnographic Study On A Story Of Grief And The Role Of Psychological Capital, Christina Albright

Organization, Information and Learning Sciences ETDs

We have all experienced grief. The death of a person or pet, the death of a relationship or end of a job, and even disappointments carry with them experiences of grief. Whenever someone or something dies, we try to make meaning of the situation to find some closure and move toward a new normal. Meaning making occurs as we tell our stories, share our experiences, and sort through memories. Qualitative research is much the same. In qualitative research one might hear, see, or experience a story, then sort through the details, looking for ways to explain and bring meaning and …

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Cseas Weekly Bulletin (April 11, 2022), Center For Southeast Asian Studies Apr 2022

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (April 11, 2022), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.

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College Faculty In The News: April 11, 2022, University Of Dayton Apr 2022

College Faculty In The News: April 11, 2022, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

News agencies across the region, the nation and throughout the world often reach out to our faculty experts for their perspectives on today's issues.

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Breadwinner Mothers Of School-Aged Children During Covid-19: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Rebecca D. Miller Apr 2022

Breadwinner Mothers Of School-Aged Children During Covid-19: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Rebecca D. Miller

Dissertations

Working mothers have long faced myriad challenges to optimal work-life balance, with evidence of negative consequences to their physical and mental wellbeing. During the COVID-19 pandemic, working mothers reported unprecedented difficulties, though inquiry into breadwinner mothers’ experiences remained lacking. This research focused specifically on the experiences of breadwinner mothers of elementary school-aged children who navigated remote working and remote schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic. A diverse sample of 12 breadwinner mothers across the United States completed semi-structured interviews focusing on the impact of the pandemic on their daily lives, as well as how they understood their experiences in light of …

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King Behind Colonial Curtains: Kasilag And The Making Of Filipino National Culture, Paul Gabriel L. Cosme Apr 2022

King Behind Colonial Curtains: Kasilag And The Making Of Filipino National Culture, Paul Gabriel L. Cosme

International Studies Honors Projects

Filipino National Artist Lucrecia “King” Kasilag sought to preserve folk cultures and melded these with her Western training to produce works—scholarly, pedagogical, and compositional—that shaped national music and culture. This thesis is a critical biography that combines perspectives from postcolonial studies, political economy, and musicology to highlight forces that shaped Kasilag’s life while illustrating her successes and shortcomings on national culture. Through this biography, I argue, Filipino national culture must originate from intersectional struggles and negotiation among elites and masses; that this culture is about both resistance and acceptance—a national culture that is syncretic and quintessentially dynamic.

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Louis Choris And Scientific Illustration: Visualizing Colonialism In New California, Bella R. Pettengill Apr 2022

Louis Choris And Scientific Illustration: Visualizing Colonialism In New California, Bella R. Pettengill

2022 Claremont Colleges Library Undergraduate Research Award

This paper investigates artist Louis Choris and his book of scientific illustrations, Voyage Pittoresque autor de monde (1815), as a case study for the larger dilemma of visualizing factual modes of documentation. With a specific focus on Choris’s anthropological drawings of the indigenous people from the San Francisco Bay area and mission, it is argued how the decisions that must be made when representing something contain inherent biases. This contrasts with the functional usage of these drawings as documents meant to depict objective realities, especially in a time marked by heightened interest in taxonomy and the natural sciences. Above all, …

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Vol. 62, No. 12 (April 11, 2022) Apr 2022

Vol. 62, No. 12 (April 11, 2022)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Return Migration, Reintegration, And The Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Kyrgyzstan, Saeed Ahmad Apr 2022

Return Migration, Reintegration, And The Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Kyrgyzstan, Saeed Ahmad

Student Research Symposium

The disruptions to migration caused by the COVID-19 pandemic were particularly notable in the former Soviet Union, because before the pandemic the region experienced levels of circular and labor migration, and comparatively lax restrictions on international mobility. Kyrgyzstan and other FSU states are heavily dependent on migrant remittances from Russia, making the border closures and other restrictions during the pandemic a major source of hardship. This paper draws on 20 interviews with citizens of Kyrgyzstan who returned from Russia after March 2020. We ask how individuals and families made the decision to return to Kyrgyzstan in the chaotic and uncertain …

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Students Flock To Social Justice Course To Learn About Social Movements And Activism, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences Apr 2022

Students Flock To Social Justice Course To Learn About Social Movements And Activism, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Sga 53 Senate 2022-04-10 Minutes, Niu Student Government Association Senate Apr 2022

Sga 53 Senate 2022-04-10 Minutes, Niu Student Government Association Senate

Student Government Association Archives

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The Prevalence Of Trauma In The Dunning Cemetery Population (1849 - 1861), Sofia Ponce Apr 2022

The Prevalence Of Trauma In The Dunning Cemetery Population (1849 - 1861), Sofia Ponce

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

Bone fractures are extremely common, whether they come from high-energy or localized force. They are often found in skeletal remains from past populations. Examining fractures of past populations can give insight into their lives, the conditions of their environment, and interpersonal violence. This study examines fractures noted in the Chicago Dunning Poorhouse skeletal population, which has been dated from 1849 to 1861. In total, 120 individuals were excavated at the archeological site and 14 individuals appeared to display evidence of bone fractures from trauma. The frequency, location, and time of fractures will be analyzed and compared to similar archeological populations.

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Happily Ever After, Phoebe C. Ellsworth Apr 2022

Happily Ever After, Phoebe C. Ellsworth

Book Chapters

I have been lucky in my upbringing and education, and especially in having advisors who let me do what I wanted to even when they didn’t think it was a good idea. This allowed me to have a deeply rewarding career devoted to two entirely different topics – basic theory and research on emotion, and applied theory and research in psychology and law. My career spanned the period from when women were considered unsuitable for scientific or academic work through the rise of feminism, so although I faced obstacles, the culture was changing quickly enough that my unusual choices soon …

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Buying Goodwill: Local And Regional Consumer Relationships In Nineteenth Century New Mexico, Erin Nicole Hegberg Apr 2022

Buying Goodwill: Local And Regional Consumer Relationships In Nineteenth Century New Mexico, Erin Nicole Hegberg

Anthropology ETDs

This dissertation uses comparative analysis of four nineteenth century Hispanic sites to examine the daily practices by Hispanic residents of acquiring and consuming material goods (1821–1912). Through the practice of consumption, Hispanics created and reinforced social relationships with the groups who bartered or sold them goods. In frontier New Mexico consumer relationships reflected important networks that may have played a role in the creation and maintenance of modern Hispanic identity after U.S. annexation. The nineteenth century was a key moment in the developing racialization of Hispanic identity in New Mexico, which makes it a vital period of study for archaeologists …

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Assessing Methods For Thin-Sectioning Teeth, Luz Castrejon Apr 2022

Assessing Methods For Thin-Sectioning Teeth, Luz Castrejon

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

The goal of this study is to determine best techniques for thin sectioning, while also examining the necessity of this destructive method. Several parameters of the thin-sectioning technique were assessed, including epoxy type, epoxy block production, and de-gassing versus non-de-gassing the epoxy. Results show that alternative epoxy types are functional (Epo-Tek 301) as long as they are low viscosity. Placing the tooth in the mold first and de-gassing the epoxy prior to curing resulted in the fewest number of air bubbles, improving the accuracy of the sawing process. In conclusion, these updated parameters are recommended for future work.

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Colonial Myths: The Conquest Of Cabeza De Vaca, Willie Hurst Apr 2022

Colonial Myths: The Conquest Of Cabeza De Vaca, Willie Hurst

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis examines the relaciónes (report) Naufragios (1542) and Comentarios (1555) with the intention of expanding upon the ample publications already existent on Cabeza de Vaca. With this thesis I offer a contrasting reading and reexamination of both of Cabeza de Vaca’s works. I argue that a number of the scholarly publications on Cabeza de Vaca fail to understand, define, and explore the identity and goals of Cabeza de Vaca as his own unique version of a conqueror which ultimately leads to a misunderstanding and misinterpretation of the texts. After an initial chapter discussing how Cabeza de Vaca never underwent …

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Shocking: Using Machine Learning Techniques To Nowcast Lightning Strikes From Station Level Data, Michael D. Broussard Apr 2022

Shocking: Using Machine Learning Techniques To Nowcast Lightning Strikes From Station Level Data, Michael D. Broussard

LSU Master's Theses

Lightning strikes are incredibly common and potentially hazardous. Lightning can lead to loss of life, property damage, or can trigger other hazardous events like wildfires. They are also the result of incredibly complex physical processes in the atmosphere, making it challenging to predict strikes. However, given the extensive data and robust analytical techniques available, machine learning methods could be used to establish data relationships between lightning strikes and ground-level atmospheric measurements. Such a model could be used to provide any surface-based weather station with a method for predicting incoming strikes, making it easier to avoid the potentially hazardous effects of …

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